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Shillary posted:I think when people say Atlanta they mean Buckhead and Cobb County, which honestly I can't disagree with. Yep. It's like when people say Chicago they really mean like 2 neighboorhoods, and like maybe a 5 block radius.
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BigRed0427 posted:How about CNN HQ at least? shotgun on killing wolf blitzer
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Crain posted:
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Luigi Thirty posted:Hell yeah burn the 4th largest majority black city in the country gently caress the south Every time someone goes "gently caress the South, ACW 2 Electric Boogaloo", someone always counters with "actually there are a LOT of black people in the South, checkmate you monster" like clockwork. But, I mean, has anyone considered how the Union did it the first time around?
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https://twitter.com/bridgetbhc/status/743112705977012224 It is indeed a filibuster.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:21
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That guy is no longer Reason EIC as of today
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Jun 15, 2016 17:21
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I'm kind of excited for Hilldawg. Not totally amped like I was for Obama in 08 but I voted for her over Bernie because I think she'll be better at the job than he would be. Basically what I'm looking for is someone who will not suffer republican fools and I think she'll be starting out pretty close to the zero-fucks-to-give level Obama finally reached after too many wasted years. Also someone to appoint liberal judges.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:22
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Senate Dems are going to try to make this a whole deal, good luck to them https://twitter.com/ha_nah_nah/status/743116153388732416
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Jun 15, 2016 17:24
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I would at least be positive of Hillary if the positions she took from Bernie were not compromised. She's not fighting for $15 minimum, she's looking to create a sliding scale where cities pay $15 and surrounding areas pay less. She'll think about making medical marijuana legal, but won't repeal prohibition entirely. Even if congress won't let her, it's important to set a strong tone so that if you had to negotiate, you won't be caught in an even weaker position. Obama did that with the PPACA, starting from a compromised position thinking it would just be accepted, but it was not and ended up even weaker than he wanted. There's absolutely no reason for her to compromise on anything fiscally liberal, but she's still doing it and it's just baffling.
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showbiz_liz posted:And then she won anyway, right? Yep! Arizona is hosed up!
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Jun 15, 2016 17:25
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NRA/status/743110378272350208 They're against administrative restrictions like preventing people on the no-fly list from buying guns. Also due process like "better to be judged by twelve than carried by six"
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Jun 15, 2016 17:25
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zoux posted:Senate Dems are going to try to make this a whole deal, good luck to them https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/743117407955390464 And the GOP are going to be dicks about it. Freakazoid_ posted:I would at least be positive of Hillary if the positions she took from Bernie were not compromised. She's not fighting for $15 minimum, she's looking to create a sliding scale where cities pay $15 and surrounding areas pay less. She'll think about making medical marijuana legal, but won't repeal prohibition entirely. Uh maybe she supports the sliding scale because she thinks it's better policy and not because of cynical triangulation lizard people reasons?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Every time someone goes "gently caress the South, ACW 2 Electric Boogaloo", someone always counters with "actually there are a LOT of black people in the South, checkmate you monster" like clockwork. yes, how dare they not treat the call to literally attack the south with careful, logical rigor
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Bunleigh posted:I'm kind of excited for Hilldawg. Not totally amped like I was for Obama in 08 but I voted for her over Bernie because I think she'll be better at the job than he would be. Basically what I'm looking for is someone who will not suffer republican fools and I think she'll be starting out pretty close to the zero-fucks-to-give level Obama finally reached after too many wasted years. Also someone to appoint liberal judges. I am super looking forward to President Hillary "Gives Zero Fucks About Republicans" Clinton. The bigger the stomping she gives to Trump, the more hard rear end she can be against the GOP from the get go. I hope she has some sort of "The American people have made their voice heard, and they have rejected your party." line in her acceptance speech.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:27
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This is crazy, this is Nixon going to China crazy. If this goes through we will literally be able to say that Donald Trump was the most influential political re: gun control since 1996.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:Every time someone goes "gently caress the South, ACW 2 Electric Boogaloo", someone always counters with "actually there are a LOT of black people in the South, checkmate you monster" like clockwork. You realize the Union didn't have black owned businesses or black community districts in Atlanta to avoid right?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Every time someone goes "gently caress the South, ACW 2 Electric Boogaloo", someone always counters with "actually there are a LOT of black people in the South, checkmate you monster" like clockwork. "how come people respond to cliches with cliches? and whats the deal with airline food?" lots of non-southern americans assume the south is just as lily white as whatever bedroom suburb they squat in and it's funny every time. we point out the south is actually where most of america's black citizens live - and georgia has the highest black population in the country - because it always makes people who pull the super dead horse joke "sherman lol" mad
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Shillary posted:This is crazy, this is Nixon going to China crazy. If this goes through we will literally be able to say that Donald Trump was the most influential political re: gun control since 1996. It's depressing as gently caress that it would take Trump's response to the largest firearms massacre in US history though and not, you know, the murder of a couple dozen children several years previous.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:32
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Shillary posted:This is crazy, this is Nixon going to China crazy. If this goes through we will literally be able to say that Donald Trump was the most influential political re: gun control since 1996. Trump being able to act like he got the NRA to let a gun bill pass would actually give support to his deal maker persona in a powerful way. Still not likely to happen.
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Crain posted:
Is he the rapist or is that the jacobin guy
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Party Plane Jones posted:It's depressing as gently caress that it would take Trump's response to the largest firearms massacre in US history though and not, you know, the murder of a couple dozen children several years previous. If it was a Muslim that shot up Sandy Hook, it would've been then.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:32
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Herman Cain is Back. Now this election cycle is almost complete; he just needs to get the VP nomination.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:lots of non-southern americans assume the south is just as lily white as whatever bedroom suburb they squat in and it's funny every time. we point out the south is actually where most of america's black citizens live - and georgia has the highest black population in the country - because it always makes people who pull the super dead horse joke "sherman lol" mad When I moved from NC to NYC I was (naively) surprised at just how much racism there is up here. It's just a different flavor. I've found the old cliche to be broadly true - in the South it's "I don't care how close they get as long as they don't get too high," and in the North it's "I don't care how high they get as long as they don't get too close."
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zoux posted:Uh maybe she supports the sliding scale because she thinks it's better policy and not because of cynical triangulation lizard people reasons? As someone looking to get out of a rural area and into civilization, gently caress you, it's not better policy. You can't afford poo poo on minimum wage out in the country either.
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Junior G-man posted:Herman Cain is Back. Now this election cycle is almost complete; he just needs to get the VP nomination. eh this is a guest appearance, herman cain has a (hilariously bad) radio show based out of atlanta
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Jun 15, 2016 17:36
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NRA/status/743110378272350208 Adding, "All Muslims are terrorists in much the same way all white people aren't"
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:As someone looking to get out of a rural area and into civilization, gently caress you, it's not better policy. You can't afford poo poo on minimum wage out in the country either. gently caress me?
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zoux posted:gently caress me? Don't, it's a trick!
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How Leaving America Changes What People Think About Gunsquote:There are few examples that ring truer than America's obsession with guns. While the US leads the world in mass shootings, with 372 in 2015 alone, there has only been one mass shooting in Switzerland in the last 15 years. The Swiss rank fourth in the world in guns per capita—behind the US, Yemen, and Syria—but the ownership is rooted in a sense of safety and responsibility.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:As someone looking to get out of a rural area and into civilization, gently caress you, it's not better policy. You can't afford poo poo on minimum wage out in the country either. What a cogent argument Perhaps businesses in urban areas can adjust to cost increases quicker and more flexibly than less-trafficked rural businesses
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Jun 15, 2016 17:45
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https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/743122293753282560 I'm not seeing this being covered anywhere though, it's all Trump and alligators.
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Dexo posted:Yep. It's like when people say Chicago they really mean like 2 neighboorhoods, and like maybe a 5 block radius. Relatedly, fresh from my Facebook feed:  zoux posted:gently caress me? Sorry, still waking up and assumed you were agreeing that it was better policy.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Sorry, still waking up and assumed you were agreeing that it was better policy. I don't know what the better policy is. I don't know what's so special about $15 besides that it's divisible by 5 and humans like numbers divisible by 5. I think probably a better policy would be to index it to CoL/FPL numbers and have it move based on relative economic performance but I'll leave that up to economists.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/743122293753282560 Filibusters are only exciting to us political nerds.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I would at least be positive of Hillary if the positions she took from Bernie were not compromised. She's not fighting for $15 minimum, she's looking to create a sliding scale where cities pay $15 and surrounding areas pay less. She'll think about making medical marijuana legal, but won't repeal prohibition entirely. There's absolutely a reason for her to compromise on liberal economic policies if she doesn't want them in the first place.
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I seem to recall $15 being chosen as the inflation-adjusted equivalent to what minimum wage used to be at some earlier time when everyone agreed it was fairer, then fudged into a nice round number. But I could be talking out of my rear end.
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boom boom boom posted:What's your problem? That guy's great in Veep Reason is a libertarian magazine.
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haveblue posted:I seem to recall $15 being chosen as the inflation-adjusted equivalent to what minimum wage used to be at some earlier time when everyone agreed it was fairer, then fudged into a nice round number. But I could be talking out of my rear end. According to the Dept of Labor the highest it ever was was around 10 2012 dollars https://www.dol.gov/featured/minimum-wage/chart1
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“This sounds like a shucky-ducky kind of crowd on a shucky-ducky kind of day, here to support an awww-shucky ducky kind of candidate,” [Cain] told people. he really did say it
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